Baseball for Everyone: A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players
by Dimaggio, Joe
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/Good +
- Seller
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Lewisville, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Whittlesey House, 1948. Book. Illus. by Lenny Hollreiser. Very Good +. Hardcover. First Edition/First Printing. A square solid tight very carefully read copy. The text block edges are browning, some lightish board edge wear. The 2.50 priced jacket has some rubbing wear, some edge wear, some browning, some soil, several short closed tears, chipping at the top and heel of the spine. Actually a pretty nice copy with a jacket that is about 98% complete after considering the flaws above. Advisory board of Baseball experts Carl Hubbell, Bill Dickey, Frankie Frisch and Art Fletcher. There is also a special chapter included by Red Barber " How to Score ". THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY..
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- Bookseller
- Pat Cramer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 030890
- Title
- Baseball for Everyone: A Treasury of Baseball Lore and Instruction for Fans and Players
- Author
- Dimaggio, Joe
- Illustrator
- Lenny Hollreiser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Whittlesey House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Keywords
- /
- Bookseller catalogs
- Sports; Memoirs; Baseball;
Terms of Sale
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I accept cash, checks, money orders and bank cards. International orders paid by check must be made out to a United States bank branch. International orders paid by money order must be a postal money order made out in United States dollars. You can return any book that you purchase from me if you are not satisfied with it.
About the Seller
Pat Cramer, Bookseller
Biblio member since 2006
Lewisville, Texas
About Pat Cramer, Bookseller
I have been selling used and rare books internationally since 1985.I tend to list modern fiction because that is what i know the most about.I specialize on horror and suspense fiction because these are two areas that i enjoy most and because they are two areas that I know the most aboutI am not a generalist dealer but I have been known to list a small percentage of anything that looks interesting to me, fiction and non-fiction, to bring new customers to my site.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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